Malcolm Press

Malcolm Colin Press (born 18 September 1958)[1] is a British ecologist, professor and Vice-Chancellor of the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), in the United Kingdom.[1][5]

Malcolm Press
Born
Malcolm Colin Press

(1958-09-18) 18 September 1958[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
AwardsBES presidents Medal (2005)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisResponses to acidic deposition in blanket bogs (1983)
Doctoral advisorJohn A. Lee[3][4]
Notable studentsJulian Hibberd (postdoc)
Websitewww.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/vice-chancellor/

Education

Press was educated at the Westfield College,[1] part of the University of London gaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science in 1980 followed by a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1984 supervised by John A. Lee.[3] In 2008, he gained a Diploma in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of Sheffield.

Career

Following his PhD, Press was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University College London (UCL) from 1985 to 1989.

He was appointed a Lecturer in 1989 at the University of Manchester and promoted to senior lecturer in 1992. He moved to the University of Sheffield in 1994, where he was a Reader until 1998, then professor of Physiological Ecology, and Head of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences from 2002.

He was appointed Pro-vice-chancellor and Head of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham in 2008. From 2013 he was Birmingham's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer.[6][7]

Press started his position as Vice-Chancellor at MMU in June 2015[8][9][10][11] where he took over from John Brooks who held the post from 2005 to 2015.[12][13]

Press was president of the British Ecological Society (BES) 2007–2009, and was awarded the BES president's medal in 2005. From 2009 to 2012, he was a member of the Council of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.[14] Between 2012 and 2018, he was on the Board of Trustees at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, appointed by Lord Taylor.[2] Since 2015 he has been a trustee of the World Wide Fund for Nature[15] UK. In 2017, he was appointed as Chair of the Manchester Memorial Advisory Group, serving until 2020. In 2020, he was appointed a trustee of the British Council. He sits on the boards of UCAS,[16] the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education[17] and the Manchester International Festival. Press also sits on the boards of a number of university-linked businesses, including Manchester Science Partnerships,[18] Health Innovation Manchester,[19] and the Oxford Road Corridor.[20]

Research

Press is internationally recognised as a researcher in the field of sustainable agriculture, climate change and tropical forests.[21] Highlights include:

Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on upland vegetation: his PhD was the first demonstration of the impact of pollutant nitrogen on a British terrestrial ecosystem.[22][23][24]

Impacts of climate change on terrestrial Arctic ecosystems: community changes to temperature and nutrients are driven by the response of key species and their interactions.[25][26][27][28]

Interactions between parasitic plants and their cereal hosts in sub-Saharan Africa: control and mechanisms of tolerance and resistance.[29][30][31]

Impacts of parasitic plants on ecosystem structure and function: hemiparasites are keystone species and ecosystem engineers, shaping community structure through impacts on decomposition and nutrient cycling.[32][33][34][35]

Factors that control the regeneration of dipterocarp seedlings in South East Asian tropical rain forests.[36][37][38]

References
  1. Anon (2015). "Press, Prof. Malcolm Colin". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.10000142. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. "Professor Malcolm Press has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by Lord Taylor". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
  3. Press, Malcolm Colin (1983). Responses to Acidic Deposition in Blanket Bogs. manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. Copac 36522465. Archived from the original on 3 March 2015.
  4. "Emeritus Professor John A Lee". Sheffield: University of Sheffield. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012.
  5. "Brazil and beyond: inside Birmingham and Nottingham universities' research partnership". The Guardian. 15 March 2012. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014.
  6. "Professor Malcolm Press, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer, Life and Environmental Sciences". Birmingham: University of Birmingham. Archived from the original on 3 May 2013.
  7. "Professor Malcolm Press BSc, PhD, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Transfer)". Birmingham: University of Birmingham. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
  8. "Professor Malcolm Press begins as Vice-Chancellor: New era for Manchester Metropolitan University". Manchester Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 5 June 2015.
  9. "Professor Malcolm Press, Vice-Chancellor". Manchester Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015.
  10. Jump, Paul (2013). "Birmingham pro v–c's remark infuriates staff". Times Higher Education. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
  11. "UK Government Research Grants awarded to Malcolm Press". Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015.
  12. Anon (2015). "Brooks, Prof. John Stuart". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.8907. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  13. "Manchester Metropolitan University appoints new vice-chancellor". Manchester: Manchester Evening News. 12 December 2014. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016.
  14. "UCAS welcomes three new Trustees to our Board". UCAS. 8 July 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  15. "Malcolm Press". WWF. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  16. "Board of Trustees". UCAS. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  17. "andrew.davies@education.gov.uk". Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  18. "MANCHESTER SCIENCE PARTNERSHIPS LIMITED - Officers (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  19. "Our Board". Health Innovation Manchester. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  20. "Board". Oxford Road Corridor. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  21. "Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (Press, Malcolm)". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  22. Press, M. C.; Lee, J. A. (December 1982). "Nitrate Reductase Activity of Sphagnum Species in the South Pennines". New Phytologist. 92 (4): 487–494. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1982.tb03406.x. ISSN 0028-646X.
  23. Woodin, S.; Press, M. C.; Lee, J. A. (March 1985). "Nitrate Reductase Activity in Sphagnum Fuscum in Relation to Wet Deposition of Nitrate from the Atmosphere". New Phytologist. 99 (3): 381–388. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1985.tb03666.x. ISSN 0028-646X.
  24. Press, M. C.; Woodin, S. J.; Lee, J. A. (May 1986). "The Potential Importance of an Increased Atmospheric Nitrogen Supply to the Growth of Ombrotrophic Sphagnum Species". New Phytologist. 103 (1): 45–55. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1986.tb00595.x. ISSN 0028-646X.
  25. Press, M.C.; Potter, J.A.; Burke, M.J.W.; Callaghan, T.V.; Lee, J.A. (April 1998). "Responses of a subarctic dwarf shrub heath community to simulated environmental change". Journal of Ecology. 86 (2): 315–327. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00261.x. ISSN 0022-0477.
  26. Bale, Jeffery S.; Masters, Gregory J.; Hodkinson, Ian D.; Awmack, Caroline; Bezemer, T. Martijn; Brown, Valerie K.; Butterfield, Jennifer; Buse, Alan; Coulson, John C.; Farrar, John; Good, John E. G. (January 2002). "Herbivory in global climate change research: direct effects of rising temperature on insect herbivores". Global Change Biology. 8 (1): 1–16. Bibcode:2002GCBio...8....1B. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00451.x. ISSN 1354-1013.
  27. Richardson, Sarah J.; Press, Malcolm C.; Parsons, Andrew N.; Hartley, Susan E. (June 2002). "How do nutrients and warming impact on plant communities and their insect herbivores? A 9‐year study from a sub‐Arctic heath". Journal of Ecology. 90 (3): 544–556. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2745.2002.00681.x. ISSN 0022-0477.
  28. Sloan, Victoria L.; Fletcher, Benjamin J.; Press, Malcolm C.; Williams, Mathew; Phoenix, Gareth K. (December 2013). "Leaf and fine root carbon stocks and turnover are coupled across Arctic ecosystems". Global Change Biology. 19 (12): 3668–3676. Bibcode:2013GCBio..19.3668S. doi:10.1111/gcb.12322. PMID 23846848.
  29. Scholes, Julie D; Press, Malcolm C (April 2008). "Striga infestation of cereal crops – an unsolved problem in resource limited agriculture". Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 11 (2): 180–186. doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2008.02.004. PMID 18337158.
  30. Swarbrick, P. J.; Huang, K.; Liu, G.; Slate, J.; Press, M. C.; Scholes, J. D. (July 2008). "Global patterns of gene expression in rice cultivars undergoing a susceptible or resistant interaction with the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica". New Phytologist. 179 (2): 515–529. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02484.x. PMID 19086183.
  31. Cissoko, Mamadou; Boisnard, Arnaud; Rodenburg, Jonne; Press, Malcolm C.; Scholes, Julie D. (December 2011). "New Rice for Africa (NERICA) cultivars exhibit different levels of post-attachment resistance against the parasitic weeds Striga hermonthica and Striga asiatica". New Phytologist. 192 (4): 952–963. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03846.x. PMID 21883232.
  32. Hartley, S. E.; Green, J. P.; Massey, F. P.; Press, M. C. P.; Stewart, A. J. A.; John, E. A. (September 2015). "Hemiparasitic plant impacts animal and plant communities across four trophic levels". Ecology. 96 (9): 2408–2416. doi:10.1890/14-1244.1. ISSN 0012-9658. PMID 26594698.
  33. Quested, Helen M.; Cornelissen, J. Hans C.; Press, Malcolm C.; Callaghan, Terry V.; Aerts, Rien; Trosien, Frank; Riemann, Petra; Gwynn-Jones, Dylan; Kondratchuk, Alexandra; Jonasson, Sven E. (December 2003). "Decomposition of Sub-Arctic Plants with Differing Nitrogen Economies: A Functional Role for Hemiparasites". Ecology. 84 (12): 3209–3221. doi:10.1890/02-0426. ISSN 0012-9658.
  34. Press, Malcolm C.; Phoenix, Gareth K. (23 February 2005). "Impacts of parasitic plants on natural communities: Tansley review". New Phytologist. 166 (3): 737–751. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01358.x. PMID 15869638.
  35. Fisher, James P.; Phoenix, Gareth K.; Childs, Dylan Z.; Press, Malcolm C.; Smith, Stuart W.; Pilkington, Michael G.; Cameron, Duncan D. (April 2013). "Parasitic plant litter input: a novel indirect mechanism influencing plant community structure". New Phytologist. 198 (1): 222–231. doi:10.1111/nph.12144. PMID 23356534.
  36. Massey, Fergus P.; Massey, Kate; Press, Malcolm C.; Hartley, Sue E. (24 March 2006). "Neighbourhood composition determines growth, architecture and herbivory in tropical rain forest tree seedlings: Neighbourhood effects on S. leprosula". Journal of Ecology. 94 (3): 646–655. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01127.x.
  37. Bagchi, Robert; Press, Malcolm C.; Scholes, Julie D. (January 2010). "Evolutionary history and distance dependence control survival of dipterocarp seedlings". Ecology Letters. 13 (1): 51–59. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01397.x. PMID 19849708.
  38. Bagchi, Robert; Philipson, Christopher D.; Slade, Eleanor M.; Hector, Andy; Phillips, Sam; Villanueva, Jerome F.; Lewis, Owen T.; Lyal, Christopher H. C.; Nilus, Reuben; Madran, Adzley; Scholes, Julie D. (27 November 2011). "Impacts of logging on density-dependent predation of dipterocarp seeds in a South East Asian rainforest". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 366 (1582): 3246–3255. doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0034. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 3179629. PMID 22006965.
Academic offices
Preceded by
John Brooks		 Vice-Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University
2015–present		 Incumbent
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